The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) stated Friday it will review a petition asking the agency to officially investigate and recall 500,000 Tesla Inc vehicles due to sudden unintended acceleration reports. The petition includes 2012 through 2019 model year Tesla Model S, 2016 through 2019 Tesla Model X, and 2018 through 2019 Tesla Model […]
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Tesla states it plans to open China design and research center
U.S. electric automaker Tesla prepares to open a design and research center in China to make “Chinese-style” vehicles, the company stated in a recruitment notice on its official WeChat account. Wednesday’s notice sought to recruit designers and other workers to help meet the goal, and called for applications by February 1, but did not mention […]
New Tesla registrations in California dropped almost 50% in fourth quarter
Tesla Inc’s total vehicle registrations almost halved in the U.S. state of California during the fourth quarter, according to a Dominion Cross-Sell report, which gathers data from state motor vehicle records. The massive fall comes as tax credit for Tesla consumers ended in the last year. It had dropped to $3,750 at the beginning of […]
General Motors moves over 1,350 temporary employees to full-time jobs
General Motors stated on Wednesday that over 1,350 hourly workers at its assembly plants in the United States will move into full-time jobs in the first quarter of 2020. The employees are from 14 General Motors production facilities located in Michigan, Indiana, New York, Texas, Tennessee, Missouri, Kansas and Kentucky, the company stated. “We are […]
Ford’s China vehicle sales fell 26% in 2019
Ford Motor’s China vehicle sales dropped for a third consecutive year, by 26.1%, as it fights a prolonged overall sales drop in the country that has hit demand for its mass-market Ford brand and sports utility cars. Ford made deliveries of 146,473 vehicles in China in the fourth quarter, showing a drop of 14.7% year-on-year, […]
Ford spends $82 million to expand Vietnamese plant
Ford Motor stated on Tuesday it is making an investment of $82 million to expand its plant in northern Vietnam to increase production capacity. Ford Vietnam, established in 1995, stated the expanded factory would increase the U.S. automaker’s annual capacity in Vietnam to 40,000 vehicles from current volume of 14,000 units annually. The company reported […]
Peugeot family wants to quickly increase PSA-Fiat Chrysler stake
The Peugeot family, which is set to own a 6.2% stake in the new automaker resulting from PSA and Fiat Chrysler’s merger, aims to boost its holding as soon as possible, a representative stated in an interview. PSA and Fiat Chrysler agreed to a binding agreement earlier month on a $50 billion tie-up that will […]
General Motors sales dropped in China sales for another year
General Motors’s vehicle sales in China dropped for a second year as total auto sales decreased amid a sluggish economy and due to the competition in the major mid-priced sport utility vehicle (SUV) segment. Sales in 2019 dropped 15% from a year previously to 3.09 million vehicles, GM, China’s second-biggest foreign automaker, stated. GM delivered […]
Ford Mustang is the best selling American muscle car in 2019
Three months after the Dodge Challenger had beaten the Ford Mustang away on the third-quarter reports, the car pulled away for a significant full-year win among American muscle cars. Ford moved 17,124 in the fourth quarter to complete 2019 at 72,489, thus beating the Challenger’s ultimate tally of 60,997. Dodge sold 18,301 of the aging coupes – […]
Elon Musk to design a future Tesla car in China for the global market
Tesla CEO Elon Musk stated the company is going to design a future car in China for the worldwide market. The electric automaker CEO said Tesla would start a design and engineering center in China. He did not mention any timelines. Tesla also verified that it would start operation on a production program for its Model Y crossover […]
Nikola Motor aims to reduce the cost of electric vehicles
Automakers across the world are spending tens of billions of dollars to electrify their line-ups, but there are still enough difficulties that are limiting mainstream acceptance — such as range and cost. But Phoenix-based Nikola Motor may have discovered what its CEO describes as the “Holy Grail of batteries,” an alternative to the current lithium-ion […]
Ford quarterly sales fall on the downturn in passenger cars demand
Ford Motor on Monday reported a 1.3% decline in fourth-quarter vehicle sales as soft demand for passenger cars exceeded higher sales of pick-up trucks. Ford’s figures rounded off U.S. automakers’ sales for last year, with passenger cars dropping out of favor with buyers amid lower oil prices and as automakers concentrated on SUVs and pick-ups […]
Tesla made record 112,000 car deliveries in last three months
Tesla stated Friday it delivered a quarterly record of 112,000 cars in the final three months of 2019, which paved the way for the electric automaker to surpass CEO Elon Musk’s sales targets for all of the last year. With its fourth-quarter figures, Tesla finished 2019 with 367,500 deliveries of its Model 3, Model S […]
Three injured after Tesla runs red light and hits car
After the crash, Tesla’s combustible battery started to explode. Three people were seriously injured Sunday morning after police state a Tesla ran a red light and hit another car. The incident took place in downtown Salt Lake City. To be more specific, the incident took place at 900 W. North Temple when the westbound Tesla […]
Tesla Record Pushes Norway’s Account of Electric Car Sales to 42%
The share of electric cars for new registrations in Norway increased to a record in the last year, helped by Tesla Inc.’s best year ever in this country. Battery electric cars represented 42% of new car sales in Norway in 2019, increasing from 31% in 2018, the Norwegian Road Federation stated on Friday. Tesla sold a […]
